October 29‚ 2012 Dear Journal‚ I was an African American storeowner during the Watts Riots in LA in the 1960s. I witnessed the destruction of my neighborhood. I witnessed the pain and despair that overwhelmed so many people because they were a part of a state that did not care to fix the issues that their urban cities were facing every day. Countless of individuals were filled with so much anger and loss of hope for a better future. In the 1960s‚ Los Angeles had very few neighborhoods
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September 2nd‚ 1886 August 31‚ 1886‚ was one of the worst days in Charleston‚ that day we had a major earthquake of the likes of which I have never felt. The day started off as a nice calm day. My mom and I were reading a book and then all of a sudden I could hear this rumbling sound that seemed to come from inside earth. It started off as a gentle vibration then after a few minutes the noise and the vibrations became more violent. It was as if the earth had a terrible stomach ache. The shake
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RESUME Name : AVADHANAM SRIHARSHITA. Date of Birth : 13-06-2001 (Age:12 Years). Education : 8th standard. School : Sri Chaitanya Techno School‚ Chaitanyapuri‚ Hyderabad. Languages known : English‚ Hindi‚ Telugu. Place of Birth : Hyderabad. Mother :
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Dear‚Journal. I am Thomas “ broken hand “ Fitzpatrick. I can’t wait to go to Oregon ‚ all the free land for all of us and most importantly a new life there. How am I going to tell this to James? Speaking of James he Is very excited about going to Oregon he’s been talking about for months. If I need help on the trail James is going to help me because if I hadn’t had two of broke my hand in a firearm accident‚ but still James is going to have to help me out on the trail. James has been very silent
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Entry 1: I have received this book from by brother‚ Ruben. He gave it to me when I was trapped in the cistern when my brothers were away working. Ruben told me to write in it so people will know what happened to me. He told be he swiped it from my father’s blank books he was planning on writing in. I guess I should start from the beginning…. It all started with my father‚ Jacob‚ who gave me a fancy coat. My brothers interpreted this as he loved me more than them and they distanced themselves from
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I am 10 years old. Life as a slave in the plantation is terrible. I do work from 7 am to 9 pm. I have to chop and grow cotton at the plantation. I have been at this plantation for at least 5 years. I had a mom‚ a dad and 2 brothers but I got taken from my brothers and parents when I was around 5. I’m escaping so I’m free and I might be able to find my parents and brothers. I will escape with Harriet Tubman. I will leave tomorrow saturday January 25th. I will leave at night because most people
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Life of a Slave in the Middle Passage Dear Diary‚ My name is Emem Okeke and I am 13 years old. I have just come off of a train transporting me to a plantation in America. I have been separated from all of my family (my mother‚ father‚ my brother and my sister) and I am most likely going to a different plantation. I was living in Sierra Leone when I got kidnapped. My tribe was a peaceful one‚ and we weren’t in any wars at the time‚ but while all of our tribe was asleep‚ another tribe ambushed us
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Motorcycle Diaries and Life of Pi Future is a mystery‚ is like a baby that is still in her/his mother belly‚ you know is there but you don’t know how he/she looks like. Motorcycle Diaries and Life of Pi teach us that there is a world out there that we don’t know about and sometimes we have to break the rules of life‚ family and even religion to survive and make things happen. Someone once said "the worst things in life come for free to us". "You gotta fight for every breath and tell death
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SLEEP DIARY Date _______________ Complete after awakening: Time you went to bed _______________ Time you fell asleep _______________ Time you woke up _______________ Number of times awakened during the night _______________ Amount of time awake during the night _______________ Total Nighttime Sleep _______________ Comments on quality of night’s sleep: ____________________________________________________________ Did you feel groggy after getting up in the morning? Yes _____ If yes‚ for how long?
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Diary Entry 1 We Africans had everything we had possibly wanted: Shelter‚ food‚ and family & friends to rely on. But we were all lacking something as a continent‚ and that was ‘freedom’. Now I’m going to explain how I was captured and brought up to be a slave. It was a typical day in Ghana when my mother asked me to go and milk the cow at our farm that was just before the woods. I had always been an exploratory person and this time I wanted to go and discover the woods. I had always been told
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